Seventeen-year-old David Balfour's villainous uncle has him kidnapped in order to steal his inheritance. David escapes only to fall into the dangerous company of rebels who are resisting British redcoats in the Scottish highlands.
Seventeen-year-old David Balfour's villainous uncle has him kidnapped in order to steal his inheritance. David escapes only to fall into the dangerous company of rebels who are resisting British redcoats in the Scottish highlands.

Robert Louis Stevenson nasceu em Edimburgo, Escócia, em 1850, e morreu em Samoa, arquipélago do oceano Pacífico, em 1894. De constituição adoentada, cursou, sucessivamente, Engenharia e Direito, tornando-se advogado, sem nunca ter exercido a profissão. Morreu em 1894 de hemorragia cerebral.